Note: Wasted Wizard provided me with a review copy of this gaming accessory. There was no expectation or agreement to offer a positive review in return. I've bought D&D / RPG condition rings for use with minis before, and felt ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #287 - 11/24/2025 Neal Hallford joins to discuss his new book Heroes of Might and Magic: 30th Anniversary Retrospective. The history of HoM&M games is, in many ways, an “epic story” that tells the history ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #286 - 9/28/2025 The Quatermass Experiment, the highly influential series considered the “birth of TV Sci-Fi”, with Toby Hadoke (Quatermass Experiment megafan, Doctor Who megafan, special features do-er, author, and standup comedian… he just sits ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #285 - 8/29/2025 Sink your teeth into a slew of vampire movies from 1922 through 2025 that may or may not suck with returning movie lovers Chris Holmes and Michael Stewart (Save for Half podcast, ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #284 - 7/28/2025 TSR and Wizards of the Coast veteran Steve Winter (Steve achieved one of the longest tenures across both companies). Steve plays guitar. Steve likes Shadowdark RPG, and is also interested in Knave, ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #283 - 5/15/2025 A RAD-SATURATED BONUS EPISODE! The Cold War gone hot! “Bam” Shane joins “Doc” Benny and “Boom” Mike on the Found in the Ruins podcast to execute maneuvers on the Twilight: 2000 RPG ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #282 - 4/26/2025 Shane waxes eloquent (ok, he might rant mildly) on several aspects of the mainstream comic book industry including the direct market business model, variant covers, multiple characters with the same name, and ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #281 - 11/26/2024 Game developers Hannah and Joseph Williams join to chat about their new “Dark Crystal”-like CRPG Banquet For Fools. Shane jokingly laments a missing element from the game, but Joseph promises they won’t ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #280 - 10/23/2024 Star Trek Video Games: An Unofficial Guide to the Final Frontier with author Mat Bradley-Tschirgi. There are a LOT of Star Trek video games and Mat had some hard decisions and set ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #279 - 9/27/2024 RPG and tabletop gaming historian Jon Peterson returns for a fantastic conversation on D&D and RPG history, and his related current books and projects. A new edition of Playing at the World ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #278 - 8/22/2024 Merle M. Rasmussen, the man in the tux himself, joins to talk about the Top Secret RPG and his game design career. What was his first (mistaken) understanding of what D&D was? ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #277 - 7/22/2024 Shane, Chris Holmes, and Mike Stewart aka DM Mike (Save for Half podcast, Found in the Ruins podcast) shamble relentlessly through over 40 zombie and zombie-ish flicks in their inhuman hunger for ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #276 - 4/29/2024 Preston Poulter of Pocket Jacks Comics joins to talk comic books, the current status of his Comicsgate trademark lawsuit, and his reasons for pursuing it. Plus the economics and challenges of self-publishing ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #275 - 3/29/2024 Wide-ranging geekout with David Finn of Signal of Doom!! Lots of comic book and MCU chat (like, a lot). Pi Day. Doctor Who, old and new. Google Gemini vs. ChatGPT. Judge Dredd ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #274 - 2/29/2024 Despite what you might think from its famous box art, Greyhawk (the first D&D setting published by TSR) isn’t just knights and chivalry… so what is it then? Major Greyhawk fan Allan ...

Dig into the world of the D&D Greyhawk setting online and sooner or later you'll run across mentions of an essay from 1996 called "Putting the Grey in the Hawk" by Nitescreed. However, the essay no longer seems to have ...

Recently while doing some research for a writing project for Planet X Games (it's not my beans to spill on what the project is, so we'll have to wait for Planet X's Levi Combs to splatter those particular leguminous seeds) ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #273 - 1/31/2024 Strat-O-Matic Baseball might be one of the biggest games you’ve never heard of, and three-time champion William “Bill” Meinhardt joins to share his passion for playing it! How long has the game ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #272 - 12/29/2023 Star Fleet Battles is the Star Trek-based wargame that’s been in constant publication since 1979, leading to an expanded range of games and lore known as the Star Fleet Universe. SFB fan, ...

Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #271 - 11/20/2023 Discover the real Stan Lee (not the public PR persona) and his story in Tom Scioli’s amazing I Am Stan biographical graphic novel. Plus: Simple comic book character design versus convoluted and ...